Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasury had agreed to print invasion lire for use in Italy, invasion marks for Germany. The real beauty of the plan, in Morgenthau's view, was that the U.S. would have to redeem only the currency the Army used to pay soldiers. The Italians and Germans would be stuck with currency spent for food, supplies, etc.; redemption would be part of their reparations...
Outside Boston, fans and sport columnists, who naturally go for the personalities, have scarcely noticed steady, workmanlike Southpaw Spahn. In Boston, they have not even thought up a nickname that stuck (his Braves mates call him "The Nose"). Except for his high-heeled delivery (see cut) and his knack of nipping runners off first base,* there was not much out of the way about shy, Buffalo-born Warren Spahn. In every baseball manager's book, young left-hander pitchers are automatically listed as eccentric. Not so Spahn. He has what few southpaws have ever shown in their first full...
...when Protestantism was so mired down in social reform that it tended to forget theology-a time when the intellectual world often looked on religion as a misty-minded form of escapism. In such an era, the Century dared to speak of Christianity as a way of life, and stuck to the truths of Christian gospel...
...National Dairy Products Corp. Son of Maryland's onetime Democratic Senator, Princeton-mate of Navy Secretary James Forrestal, James Bruce was no trained diplomat. Aside from a short tour as assistant military attache in Rome, and as special representative in Montenegro for the Versailles peace conference, he had stuck to banking and finance...
...stooging for most of the top funny men: Hope, Durante, Frank Morgan, Milton Berle, Danny Kaye. She practiced her comedy lines and learned to "get into the show." She also picked up some brassy publicity tricks: one night Garry Moore called her "Her Nibs, Miss Georgia Gibbs." The title stuck-to Georgia's belts, cigaret lighters and anything else that could be engraved, embroidered or rhinestoned with the catch line...